Data analysis, knowing how to organize and interpret data to gain useful information, is a key planning skill and crucial to informing policy decisions, resource allocation, and urban design. Data analysis courses will bring you up to speed with the latest tools and techniques for understanding the vast amounts of informations available to planners today.
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Getting There
Getting There was produced by planners in New Hampshire to inform other planners of the concepts and benefits of universal design. The big idea illustrated by the film is that a built environment designed with the needs of the visually impaired in mind would be universally accessible for every single member of the community.
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
What makes good public spaces work, and why are some public spaces underused? Over the course of this film, William Whyte details insights into seven basic factors of successful public spaces: suitable space, interaction with the street, the sun, food, water, trees, and, finally, a term Whyte calls triangulation, or the ability of a public space to bring people together.